Our inner space

Psychologies Magazine, July 2001 — Every summer, tens of thousands of French people devote a few days to taking care of their "souls." The hostels of Catholic monasteries are packed to the rafters—sometimes you have to book more than a year in advance...

Travel to India

Psychologies Magazine, June 2001 — In 1982, I celebrated my 20th birthday in India. Nineteen years later, I returned there for interviews with the Dalai Lama for a book. The reasons that once drove me to make this trip and the traces it left on me...

Religions: from dialogue to tolerance

Psychologies Magazine, May 2001 — The visit that John Paul II is to make on May 5, barefoot, to the Great Mosque of Damascus is a historic event. After having already visited the Great Synagogue of Rome at the beginning of his pontificate, this step by the Pope...

Can we vaccinate against sects?

Psychologies Magazine, April 2001 — With the rate of mass suicides, we have become accustomed to only talking about sects when these tragic excesses occur. For once, a real debate (1) is developing in civil society around a project of...

The humanism of compassion

Psychologies Magazine, January 2001 — The growing popularity of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism in the West has revived an old, centuries-worn moral concept: compassion. Already criticized by the Stoics and Spinoza as a weakness of...